List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1986

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1986 have been awarded annually since 1925, by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

Fellow	Category	Field of Study
Elihu Abrahams	Natural Sciences	Physics
Pere Alberch	Natural Sciences	Organismic Biology & Ecology
John A. Alford	Humanities	Medieval Literature
John Algeo	Humanities	Linguistics
Harry R. Allcock	Natural Sciences	Chemistry
Terry Allen	Creative Arts	Fine Arts
Paul D. Allison	Social Sciences	Sociology
Max Apple	Creative Arts	Fiction
W. John Archer	Humanities	Architecture, Planning, & Design
Karole Armitage	Creative Arts	Choreography
Daniel Asia	Creative Arts	Music Composition
Oswaldo Baffa-Filho	Natural Sciences	Applied Physics
John Baldessari	Creative Arts	Fine Arts
Stephen A. Barney	Humanities	Medieval Literature
Rodney J. Bartlett		Chemistry
Richard T. Beckett		Fine Arts
Sally Belfrage		General Nonfiction
James Benning	Creative Arts	Film
Laird W. Bergad		Iberian & Latin American History
Adele Berlin		Religion
John William Birks		Science Writing
Judith B. Black	Creative Arts	Photography
Ann Merchant Boesgaard		Astronomy—Astrophysics
Thomas R. Bohnert		Fine Arts
George Bornstein		English Literature
Alfredo Bosi		Latin American Literature
Steven Brams	Social Sciences	Political Science
Sarah Broadie		Philosophy
Richard H. Brodhead		English Literature
David L. Bromwich		Literary Criticism
Judith C. Brown		Renaissance History
Neal C. Brown		Molecular & Cellular Biology
Suzanne Shelton Buckley		Dance Studies
Sanford Budick		English Literature
Rafael Cadenas		Poetry
James D. Callen		Physics
Alan Cameron		Classics
Barry K. Carpenter		Chemistry
John W. Cell		British History
James Chace		U.S. History
Moses Hung-Wai Chan		Physics
Eric David Chasalow	Creative Arts	Music Composition
Wah Chiu		Molecular & Cellular Biology
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu		Fine Arts Research
Katerina Clark		Russian History
John H. Coatsworth		Iberian & Latin American History
Paul A. Cohen		East Asian Studies
John C. Collins		Physics
Walter D. Connor		Political Science
Joseph Connors		Fine Arts Research
Robin H. Cooper		Linguistics
Alfred Corn		Poetry
Fernando Morgan de Aguiar Correa		Neuroscience
Cathy N. Davidson		American Literature
Diane W. Davidson		Organismic Biology & Ecology
Guy F. J. de Téramond		Physics
David W. Deamer		Organismic Biology & Ecology
Joan E. DeJean		French Literature
Daniel C. Dennett		Philosophy
Jed Devine	Creative Arts	Photography
Jonathan Stewart Dewald		French History
John Divola	Creative Arts	Photography
Charlotte Douglas		Fine Arts Research
Alicia Dujovne Ortiz		Fiction
Christopher N. Duncan		Fine Arts
Diana L. Eck		South Asian Studies
J. M. Edelstein		Bibliography
Ellery Thomas Eells		Philosophy
Michelle Ekizian	Creative Arts	Music Composition
Yaffa Eliach	Humanities	German & East European History
Thomas Chadbourne Emmel	Natural Sciences	Organismic Biology & Ecology
Paz Errázuriz Körner	Creative Arts	Photography
Garth Evans	Creative Arts	Fine Arts
Drew Gilpin Faust	Humanities	U.S. History
David L. Featherman	Social Sciences	Sociology
Timothy Ferris	Natural Sciences	Science Writing
Graham R. Fleming	Natural Sciences	Chemistry
George P. Fletcher	Social Sciences	Law
Bill Fontana	Creative Arts	Fine Arts
Alban Forcione	Humanities	Spanish & Portuguese Literature
John G. Forte	Natural Sciences	Molecular & Cellular Biology
Edward Friedman	Social Sciences	Political Science
Harvey M. Friedman	Natural Sciences	Mathematics
Alice Fulton	Creative Arts	Poetry
John Lewis Gaddis		U.S. History
Juan Carlos Garavaglia		Iberian & Latin American History
Angel J. García Zambrano		Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Gary Giddins		Folklore & Popular Culture
Lila M. Gierasch		Molecular & Cellular Biology
Paul Glabicki	Creative Arts	Film
Rona Goffen		Fine Arts Research
Mary Helen M. Goldsmith		Plant Sciences
Richard Gordon	Creative Arts	Film
Carlos Gorriarena		Fine Arts
Dustin H. Griffin		English Literature
Alan D. Grinnell		Neuroscience
Keith E. Gubbins		Chemistry
Andrés Guerrero		Sociology
Germán Gullón		Spanish & Portuguese Literature
David C. Hammack		U.S. History
Peter J. Hammond		Economics
Ronald M. Harris-Warrick		Neuroscience
Lynn Ann Hasher		Psychology
Thomas L. Haskell		U.S. History
R. H. Helmholz		Law
Frank P. Herrera	Creative Arts	Photography
Hans J. Herrmann		Physics
Gary Hill		Video & Audio
Jan S. Hogendorn		Economic History
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda		Film, Video, & Radio Studies
Mark H. Holmes		Applied Mathematics
James Hoopes		U.S. History
James S. House		Sociology
Paul L. Houston	Natural Sciences	Chemistry
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia		German & East European History
Thomas P. Hughes		History of Science & Technology
Josephine Humphreys		Fiction
Jean Eichelberger Ivey	Creative Arts	Music Composition
Raúl Jacob		Iberian & Latin American History
Mark Jacobs		Plant Sciences
Susan Jacoby		General Nonfiction
Richard C. M. Janko		Classics
Robert L. Jeanne		Organismic Biology & Ecology
Denis Hale Johnson		Poetry
Vaughan F.R. Jones		Mathematics
Victor Kac		Mathematics
Andrés José Kálnay		Physics
Joel E. Keizer		Chemistry
Carlos E. Kenig		Mathematics
William Kerrigan		English Literature
David I. Kertzer		Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Nicholas M. Kiefer		Economics
Jonathan King		Molecular & Cellular Biology
John T. Kirk		Folklore & Popular Culture
Susan Kirkpatrick		Spanish & Portuguese Literature
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett		Folklore & Popular Culture
Joe Klein		General Nonfiction
Andrew H. Knoll	Natural Sciences	Organismic Biology & Ecology
Joel Kovel		Intellectual & Cultural History
Robert L. Kuttner	Creative Arts	General Nonfiction
David A. Lane		Statistics
Jill H. Larkin		Computer Science
Ann Lauterbach		Poetry
Gerald S. Lazarus		Medicine & Health
John P. LeDonne		Russian History
Marjorie B. Levinson		English Literature
Frank Levy		Economics
David Levering Lewis		U.S. History
Peirce F. Lewis		Geography & Environmental Studies
Glenn Lieberman		Music Composition
Albert Edward Litherland		Physics
Anthony A. Long		Classics
Alvin D. Loving		Fine Arts
Luis Eduardo Luna		Plant Sciences
Murli H. Manghnani		Earth Science
Leah S. Marcus		English Literature
Juan Carlos Martini		Fiction
William M. Mason		Sociology
Timothy Materer		American Literature
David Maybury-Lewis		Anthropology & Cultural Studies
David McCullough		U.S. History
Wesley McNair		Poetry
Ernesto A. Medina		Plant Sciences
Leopoldo de Meis		Molecular & Cellular Biology
Wallace K. Melville		Applied Mathematics
Edward Mendelson		English Literature
Anthony J. Merer		Chemistry
Mario Milanca Guzmán		Music Research
William Miles	Creative Arts	Film
Paul R. Milgrom		Economics
George A. Miller		Psychology
Marlui Miranda Santilli		Music Research
Mary Miss		Fine Arts
Sylvia Molloy (writer)		Latin American Literature
Juan Roberto Mora Catlett	Creative Arts	Film
Mark Morris	Creative Arts	Choreography
Karl F. Morrison		Medieval History
Martin Moskovits		Chemistry
Gwynn Murrill		Fine Arts
Suzanne Nash	Humanities	French Literature
Ei-ichi Negishi	Natural Sciences	Chemistry
John F. Nims		Poetry
Glyn P. Norton	Humanities	French Literature
Melvin Robert Novick	Social Sciences	Psychology
Mark P. O'Donnell	Creative Arts	Drama & Performance Art
Diana O'Hehir	Creative Arts	Fiction
Enrique Oliver	Creative Arts	Film
Stephen L. Olsen	Natural Sciences	Physics
Janet Oppenheim	Humanities	British History
Oscar Oszlak	Social Sciences	Political Science
Stephen Owen	Humanities	East Asian Studies
Ron Padgett		Poetry
Don N. Page		Astronomy—Astrophysics
Irma Palacios Flores		Fine Arts
Richard G. Palmer		Physics
Peter C. Papademetriou		Architecture, Planning, & Design
Peter Parnell		Drama & Performance Art
Charles D. Parsons		Philosophy
Daphne Patai		English Literature
Robert Pattison		English Literature
Alberto Pérez		Fine Arts Research
William Richard Peltier		Earth Science
Richard Pevear		French Literature
Mario Alberto Pisarev		Medicine & Health
E. Ward Plummer		Physics
Stephen Posen		Fine Arts
David L. Quint	Humanities	Literary Criticism
Janice A. Radway		American Literature
Jeffrey K. Riegel		East Asian Studies
James C. Riley		Economic History
Gene I. Rochlin		Political Science
Robert H. Rodgers		Classics
Judith Rodin		Psychology
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá		Fiction
Edward H. Roesner		Music Research
Art Rogers	Creative Arts	Photography
Abraham Rosman		Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Francisco Rothhammer		Molecular & Cellular Biology
William T. Rowe		East Asian Studies
Paula G. Rubel		Anthropology & Cultural Studies
David Salle		Fine Arts
Richard Salomon		South Asian Studies
Gillian Sankoff		Linguistics
Nancy Scheper-Hughes		Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Gjertrud Schnackenberg		Poetry
Robert W. Schrier		Medicine & Health
James A. Schultz		German & Scandinavian Literature
Peter Schumann		Theatre Arts
Philip A. Schwartzkroin		Neuroscience
Allen J. Scott		Geography & Environmental Studies
Allan Sekula		Photography Studies
Vikram Seth		Poetry
Deborah Shaffer	Creative Arts	Film
Glenn S. Silber	Creative Arts	Film
Theodora Skipitares		Drama & Performance Art
Tom Sleigh		Poetry
Paul Slovic		Psychology
David Small		Fiction
Gerald Stanton Smith		Slavic Literature
Robert Stam		Film, Video, & Radio Studies
Nancy Leys Stepan		Iberian & Latin American History
Bill Stephens		Video & Audio
May Stevens		Fine Arts
Susan A. Stewart		Folklore & Popular Culture
Philippa Strum		Political Science
Steven Stucky		Music Composition
Anne O'Neill Summers		Molecular & Cellular Biology
Timothy Tackett	Humanities	French History
Richard F. Taruskin	Humanities	Music Research
Michael B. Teitz	Humanities	Architecture, Planning, & Design
Judith Jarvis Thomson	Humanities	Philosophy
Charles B. Thorn	Natural Sciences	Physics
John H. Thow	Humanities	Music Composition
Jennifer Tipton	Humanities	Theatre Arts
Matthew Tirrell	Natural Sciences	Engineering
Mark Traugott	Social Sciences	Sociology
M. G. Trend	Social Sciences	Anthropology & Cultural Studies
James W. Truman	Natural Sciences	Organismic Biology & Ecology
Niccolò Tucci	Creative Arts	Fiction
Michael Turelli	Natural Sciences	Organismic Biology & Ecology
Henry M. Van Driel	Natural Sciences	Applied Mathematics
JoAnn Verburg	Creative Arts	Photography
Jeffrey Vitter	Natural Sciences	Computer Science
Virginia Walbot	Natural Sciences	Plant Sciences
Alan C. Walker	Social Sciences	Anthropology & Cultural Studies
William B. Walters	Natural Sciences	Chemistry
James C. Wang	Natural Sciences	Molecular & Cellular Biology
Julia R. Weertman	Natural Sciences	Applied Mathematics
Theodore R. Weiss	Creative Arts	Poetry
Lawrence Weschler	Creative Arts	General Nonfiction
Christopher C. Widnell	Natural Sciences	Molecular & Cellular Biology
James Wilcox	Creative Arts	Fiction
Alan Wilde	Humanities	American Literature
August Wilson	Creative Arts	Drama & Performance Art
David Sloan Wilson	Natural Sciences	Organismic Biology & Ecology
Walter Keith Winslow	Creative Arts	Music Composition
Tibor I. Wlassics	Humanities	Italian Literature
Philip Wofford	Creative Arts	Fine Arts
Peter Guy Wolynes	Natural Sciences	Chemistry
Al Wong	Creative Arts	Film
Wing Hung Wong	Natural Sciences	Statistics
Charles T. Wood	Humanities	Medieval History
Janet Louise Yellen	Social Sciences	Economics
Victor Jaime Yohai	Natural Sciences	Mathematics
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl	Creative Arts	Biography
Jan M. Ziolkowski	Humanities	Medieval Literature
Olivier Zunz	Humanities	U.S. History
Robert B. Zurier	Natural Sciences	Medicine & Health